Gabriel Brea-Martinez
gbreamartinez.bsky.social
Gabriel Brea-Martinez
@gbreamartinez.bsky.social
Researcher at Centre for Economic Demography, Department of Economic History, Lund University. Interested in Social Mobility, Economic Inequality, History, and Demography. Studying Sweden Spain, and Europe, Long-term, Historical, and Contemporary.
Don't miss the opportunity to present your work at the leading conference on Demography in Spain! ADEH from September 3 to 5, in an unbeatable location, Málaga. Send your abstracts in either historical or contemporary demography by 11th May (extended) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
April 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Lent has just begun! So why not learn more about marriages in Lent in the past?

Great teamwork with
@jpujadasmora.bsky.social and Prof. Anna Cabré, where we studied the determinants of marriage seasonality in the area of Barcelona in the long run!

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Which did most to encourage secularisation: politics, economy or family? Shifting seasonality of marriages in the Barcelona Area, 1715–1880 | Continuity and Change | Cambridge Core
Which did most to encourage secularisation: politics, economy or family? Shifting seasonality of marriages in the Barcelona Area, 1715–1880
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March 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Check out my latest article, coauthored with Martin Dribe! 📚: "Social mobility and fertility: Applying diagonal reference models in historical studies (Sweden, 1870–2015)"

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Social mobility and fertility: Applying diagonal reference models in historical studies (Sweden, 1870–2015)
Theoretically there are good reasons to expect social mobility to have an effect on fertility. The problem is how to assess such an effect empirically, as social mobility is a function of both soci...
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February 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Happy to see our research out! Together with @jpujadasmora.bsky.social
Check out below! 🧵
Full article: Towards more horizontality in families? Sibling associations in socio-economic status in the Barcelona area in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Towards more horizontality in families? Sibling associations in socio-economic status in the Barcelona area in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries
This paper explores the shift in family influence on socio-economic outcomes, focusing on sibling relationships, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries in the Barcelona area. Our findings r...
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January 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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The CfP for the 6th Conference of the European Society of Historical Demography is out!

The conference will be held in Bologna from 10 to 13 September 2025.

The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2025!

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November 28, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Interested in sharing and presenting your research in a high-quality academic environment? In an unbeatable location like Málaga? Submit your proposal to the 14th ADEH Conference, the leading conference for demography in the Iberian Peninsula! Deadline April 25th! adeh.org/wp-content/u...
November 27, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Extrely good news and supper happy! Looking forward to collaborating with @ingridvandijk.bsky.social (our PI) and Luciana Quaranta in this amazing project!
Very happy that Forte will fund our project "Short-lived equality? " On intergenerational persistence of health and socioeconomic status in Sweden 1850-today.
Feeling very lucky to work together with Gabriel Brea Martinez
@gbreamartinez.bsky.social and Luciana Quaranta on this the coming years!
November 27, 2024 at 12:36 PM
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The historical #fertility transition began with stopping, and then involved both stopping and spacing, with similar patterns across #social classes. Evidence from applying cure models to #microdata from Southern Sweden. New publication 👉https://www.demographic-research.org/articles/volume/51/40
November 20, 2024 at 8:34 AM
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Very grateful to Daniel Markovits for a brilliant presentation and discussion.
Merit, as an organizing principle of society, can either amplify or disrupt persistent inequality.

On Oct. 9, Stone Center Director @durlauf.bsky.social and Yale Law Professor Daniel Markovits explored two visions of meritocracy.

Watch the discussion: bit.ly/3Z8jNC5

#Meritocracy #Inequality
November 19, 2024 at 2:10 AM